ER Editor: Analysts like Alexander Mercouris have made precisely the same observations about Marine Le Pen, that she’s moved too much into the mainstream to have any political bite left. Journalist-historian Eric Zuesse also notes how she has moved to the left. The positions that used to make her stand out have been watered down to a point where, for example, pro-family Christian-leaning members of her party have simply left. Zemmour has now adopted the so-called ‘forbidden’ territory.
Durocher makes nothing of this (and neither do Zemmour nor Le Pen!), but France is one of the worst countries in Europe, besides Austria and Italy, for the oppression and lies perpetrated over Covid, including harsh injection mandates that are still in place. This despite more than 1,000 studies showing the harms done by the ‘vaccines’ (Over 1,000 Studies Published in Peer-reviewed Medical Journals Say the Vaccines are Dangerous). Many people have lost their jobs, businesses and livelihoods, of course, and are suffering economically (more than they already were, as the Gilets Jaunes/Yellow Vest movement reminded us when they first started up in late 2018), and nothing is being done about this. The only person to speak up in a sane way, who’s relentlessly exposed actual information about the Covid PLANdemic and the ‘vaccines’, as well as speaking up for people’s basic civil liberties and the law, is pro-Frexiteer Florian Philippot (pictured). His Saturday marches against the Covid nonsense have been going on since around August 2020 and still continue. Zemmour has recently promised that people fired because of refusal to take the vaccine would be reinstated, which is obviously a correct course of action. Marine Le Pen was one of the first to SUPPORT mandatory vaccination of health sector workers(!), however, and Zemmour hasn’t had much to say about this. Neither of them is standing up for people’s basic freedoms, as well as exposing the lies the French population has been subjected to, unlike Philippot. Neither of them has stood up to Big Pharma. Banging on about immigration, while legitimate, does nothing for the Covid/vaccine Elephant In The Room that many French people are still suffering because of. And what about the very real threat of reducing each of us to a QR Code that will digitize and tyrannize our daily existence? We’ve heard nothing from these two.
And we note one more thing about Zemmour. According to a French media outlet investigation, he is receiving all the funding he needs from sources related to the Rothschilds, i.e. Macron’s bosses. See Funding Both Sides: France’s New ‘Right’ Candidate Backed by Rothschilds’ Connections. When you make this point, however, to those for example who would otherwise support Philippot for president (he lacked the support of France’s mayors) but insist on voting for Zemmour as the one who’s likely to make president, the frankly reasonable reply they give is pretty much ‘anything to get rid of Macron’. Many are willing to hold their nose about Zemmour (given his views, which Guillaume Durocher explains below) just to oust The World Economic Forum‘s Great Reset / Rothschild choice. We do suspect that Zemmour is secretly batting for those who fund all sides to make sure their own globalist agenda goes ahead, however. Why isn’t he on the side of ordinary people against the travesties of the last two ridiculous years and the tyranny that is to come?
France, Rothschild Central, has an exceptionally poor, elite-captured set of politicians, and voters are naturally feeling quite helpless in the run up to next month’s presidential elections. Like everywhere, the left / right division is meaningless as so many have been neutralized by the globalist agenda. It is also suspected that Dominion Voting machines have been used in previous French elections, as they demonstrably were in the US, and are likely to be so next month.
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THE WAGES of CUCKSERVATISM: France’s Marine Le Pen Moved Left, Provoked
Crippling Challenge from Eric Zemmour
GUILLAUME DUROCHER
And they’re off! French President Emmanuel Macron officially announced on March 3 that he is running in this year’s presidential elections. Meanwhile the two main immigration patriot candidates, Marine Le Pen and Éric Zemmour, have both qualified to run in the election by each securing over 500 supporting signatures from mayors and other elected officials. Phew!
Zemmour’s qualifying was far from certain, since the identities of the signatories must now—since a reform by the previous president, the non-entity François Hollande—be made public, opening them up to social opprobrium. (In 2016, this Managed Democracy technique was key to stopping American Renaissance Editor Jared Taylor from running against a RINO in Virginia’s Tenth Congressional District, where he lives).
The first round of this election will be on April 10. So the next question now: who will face the centrist Macron in the second-round presidential election on April 24?
There is still an off-chance that the vacuously amorphous “conservative” candidate, Valérie Pécresse, will make it. But let’s put that uninspiring possibility aside.
Marine Le Pen in general has polled better than Zemmour, though he was neck-and-neck with her in second half of February. But lot can happen between now and the first-round voting on 24 April. And the fact is that she should not be in this position—she should not have made it possible for a significant challenger to emerge on her right.
Significantly, Marine Le Pen’s party, the National Rally (Rassemblement National or RN—she changed its name after the 2018 Presidential election) has been bleeding out personalities to Zemmour’s Reconquest party. The list of RN defections to Zemmour grows ever-longer: Senator Stéphane Ravier, four Members of the European Parliament (MEPs)—Nicolas Bay, Gilbert Collard, Maxette Pirbakas, and Jérôme Rivière—and the identitarian social media maven Damien Rieu. These figures are little-known outside of France, but many have been important in the French nationalist scene. Another example of Zemmour’s superior ability to unite the conservative and nationalist rights: Two national MPs, Guillaume Peltier and Joachim Son-Forget, have defected to Reconquest from the conservative and centrist parties.
Perhaps symbolically the most important loss came from Marine Le Pen’s own family. Marion Maréchal, her attractive 32 year old niece, recently joined Zemmour’s movement at a spectacular March 6 rally in Toulon. She justified her move saying:
I am convinced Éric Zemmour is the best positioned in this presidential election. This is not a matter of polling but of political vision. Politics is about energy [c’est une dynamique] … The continuity and unity of the French nation is at stake in this election. If we do nothing, in just a few years, our children could wake up in a France who would have the same name but would no longer be the same person. … I am here because, like you, I am convinced that the cultural and demographic question is the priority.
« Je suis convaincue qu’@ZemmourEric est le mieux placé dans cette présidentielle.
Ce n’est pas une question de sondage mais de perspective politique. La politique, c’est une dynamique, c’est une relation de confiance qui se tisse avec les Français ! » #ZemmourToulon pic.twitter.com/M9swskZAg6— Marion Maréchal (@MarionMarechal) March 6, 2022
Maréchal by the way still knows how to work her magic. She said for instance:
The European Union has become a vast camping ground for migrants, a store front for Chinese products, an incubator for supposedly progressive insanities, torn between veiled women and “pregnant” men.
« L’Union européenne est devenue un vaste camping pour migrants, une arrière-boutique pour produits chinois, un incubateur pour délires prétendument progressistes entre femmes voilées et hommes « enceints ». » #ZemmourToulon pic.twitter.com/P02J93N9qL
— Marion Maréchal (@MarionMarechal) March 6, 2022
Maréchal hasn’t been directly active in politics since the 2018 presidential election, preferring to run a private political science school in Lyon, and she has not been part of the RN since 2017.
Marine Le Pen’s own father, the venerable nationalist patriarch Jean-Marie Le Pen, now 93 years old, whom she actually expelled from the party he founded as part of her move to the center, had been making ambiguous statements. Occasionally, he seemed to favor Zemmour or, at the least, whichever candidate has the better chance of winning the second round. (However, he recently however came down in favor of his daughter [Présidentielle: Jean-Marie Le Pen juge “choquant” un ralliement de Marion Maréchal à Éric Zemmour, BFMTV.com, Jan 30, 2022].)
What are the causes of Marine’s losses in the nationalist camp and Zemmour’s rise as a challenger? These are many and interrelated—and they have relevance to Donald J. Trump’s ability to retain his hold over the GOP base.
Marine Le Pen’s entire political strategy since she was handed control over her father’s party in 2011 has been to avoid the various French Establishment taboos periodically violated by her father: Marshal Philippe Pétain’s not being a traitor, the place of the Holocaust in world history, the existence of race, and so on. In other words, she cucked.
Jean-Marie Le Pen was not necessarily being a gratuitous provocateur, as many people think, but making nuanced, comments, albeit often incidentally. And he was simply willing to censor himself for the sake of impudent journalists.
Marine, by contrast has spent a decade honing a very particular position: civic nationalist, opposed to immigration but inclusive of Islam, protectionist, economically left-wing, and socially moderate (e.g., not opposed to gay marriage). In the days of the euro crisis, she was also in favor of leaving the European common currency and restoring the French franc, but she has since quietly backed down from this position.
These positions have made Marine Le Pen more popular with less well-off working class or unemployed Frenchmen. However, they have left her open to challengers, like Zemmour, articulating a more hardline position on race and Islam, and with economic policies more compatible with mainstream conservative right-wing voters. Significantly, Zemmour polls better among older people and the more educated.
Perhaps Marine Le Pen’s most significant retreat has been her denial of the existence of the Great Replacement—the large-scale substitution of the French population by immigrants, in particular Africans and Muslims. In 2014, she agreed with the French Regime Media that the Great Replacement was a mere “conspiracy theory” [Pour Marine Le Pen, la théorie du «grand remplacement» relève du «complotisme», Le Figaro, November 2, 2014]. In 2019, she implausibly claimed that she “didn’t know about” the Great Replacement [« Je ne connais pas cette théorie du “grand remplacement” » : l’amnésie de Marine Le Pen, Le Monde, March 18, 2019].
All this is rather tiresome when any tourist can see that the populations of just about all Western European cities are changing before our very eyes. In neighboring Belgium, which has similar demographics to France, official statistics indicate, already, that barely half of births are to native Belgian mothers [Great-Replaced: Half of Newborns in Belgium Have Foreign-Origin Mothers, by Guillaume Durocher, Occidental Observer, December 23, 2021] (note: the “non-Belgian” births include those of European immigrants. Africans and Muslims probably make up a third of births in Belgium). On the Great Replacement, the Regime Media is shamelessly engaged in misrepresentation of reality worthy of Pravda.
Zemmour, by contrast, has made explicit opposition to the Great Replacement the central plank of his entire campaign. His is an ambiguous position: at once an avowed civic nationalism (he himself, after all, is an “assimilated” Sephardic Jew of North-African extraction), a recognition of the importance of white native French as the nation’s ethnic core, and an opposition to public manifestations of Islam.
Most recently, desperate to discredit Zemmour, Marine Le Pen claimed “Nazis” supported the North-African Jew, whereas she by contrast had thoroughly cleansed her own party of such tendencies. This unprincipled and counterproductive recycling of Regime Media slander was the last straw for many people.
I have written elsewhere on the assets that have made Zemmour’s campaign possible: his long experience as a combative conservative Talking Head (c.f. Tucker Carlson—or Pat Buchanan in 1992); his relative independence as a bestselling author; and his enjoying the support of an important French (non-Jewish) media mogul, Vincent Bolloré [Éric Zemmour on the Cowardice of French Elites, by Guillaume Durocher, American Renaissance, January 28, 2022]
It is not so much that Marine Le Pen has given up on her core positions in general, especially on immigration. She is very similar to Zemmour: Both want to eliminate family reunification and Birthright Citizenship, and to deport foreign criminals, and reduce (non-EU) immigration to negligible levels. Zemmour has suggested a €10,000 baby bonus for each child for rural families, a measure transparently aimed at increasing the native white birth rate. Le Pen has been more open to hosting Ukrainian refugees than Zemmour, sharply distinguishing them from Africans and Muslims.
Nevertheless, there is simply a palpable difference in the dynamic between her and Zemmour’s campaigns. Marine’s career has advanced by backing down from certain controversial positions, Zemmour’s career has advanced by always pushing the envelope. Even now, Zemmour will defend Marshal Pétain (pointing out, as a good civic nationalist, that he did not deport French Jews) and stress the importance of abolishing France’s draconian censorship legislation against “Hate Speech.” Another example of Zemmour’s superior ability to unite the conservative and nationalist rights.
Zemmour’s support does seem to have stalled since February, perhaps because the novelty factor was wearing off, or because the relentless attacks on him as a misogynist are working, as it supposedly did against Pat Buchanan. Zemmour has indeed said a lot of things over the years, but he at 63 is the kind of misogynist who has just fathered a child with his 28-year-old mistress. (This is France). The Russia-Ukraine conflict is a problem—he in the past has been very pro-Russian, but then again so has Le Pen.
“This is France” applies to politics too. Note that Le Pen had already moved to the left on economic and social issues, as many America Firsters urge their movement. But the result is that Zemmour is tapping into older and middle-class voters, particularly those who might have voted conservative, i.e., voters fearful of Le Pen’s socialistic and (previously) anti-euro economic policies or who were simply put off by the Le Pen brand name.
These voters almost certainly will be united in the second round, as long as a nationalist candidate makes it. e.g. this poll from January finds that if Zemmour is in second place, 84% of Le Pen voters would vote for him: Baromètre de l’élection présidentielle – Vague 8 – IFOP, January 3, 2022. That’s probably similar for Zemmour voters supporting Le Pen in second round. Zemmour however is much better placed to unite the right in terms of political figures: he has been poaching both nationalist (Rassemblement National) and conservative (Les Républicains) politicians.
One thing is certain: The polls show that there’s a lot of immigration patriotism in France. Even the center-right Les Republicains’ Valérie Pécresse has made strikingly fierce noise about immigration[In a France Fearful of Immigrants, Another Candidate Tacks Hard Right, by Norimitsu Onishi, NYT, December 18, 2021]
J’éradiquerai les zones de non-France.
Je serai toujours du côté des riverains et des victimes. Commettre un délit dans un quartier dit “de reconquête républicaine” sera une circonstance aggravante. #DébatdelaDroite pic.twitter.com/DP3iz9IgNm
— Valérie Pécresse (@vpecresse) November 14, 2021
It’s too bad they couldn’t have united in the first round.
My view on the polls: things can and will still change. The energy among activists is clearly with Zemmour: witness the numerous political defections to his campaign and the huge number of activists joining his party Reconquest (over 100,000 members since foundation 3 months ago).
There are also internal factors within Le Pen’s RN which have led it to bleed out personnel over the years. Many complain of Marine’s stifling management of the party, dominated (I quote an insider) by a “a clique of homosexuals.” She does not tolerate the existence of different “tendencies” within the party, e.g. of personalities of a more free-market or socially conservative bent.
And, plainly, the party has simply underperformed in recent years. During the disappointing 2017 presidential elections, Marine did poorly both in the televised debate with Macron and at the ballot box (33.9% of the final vote). Party spokesperson Florian Philippot—a civic nationalist who was once Marine’s closest protégé—ignominiously left the movement shortly thereafter. He has since converted himself into an anti-COVID-measure activist and all-purpose contrarian.
While the RN did well in the 2019 elections to the European Parliament (winning 23 out of 79 French seats), the party did poorly in the 2020 municipal and 2021 regional elections, failing to finish first in a single region.
It is still too early to say who will face Macron in the second round and it would be wrong to deny Marine Le Pen’s own assets. She has the experience of two previous presidential campaign. By contrast, Zemmour is naturally still finding his feet on occasion.
But if Le Pen does reach the second round, I personally am convinced she will lose. Hers has long been a joyless struggle.
Zemmour by contrast has that Trumpian je ne sais quoi: the daring thrill and momentum of which great upsets are made.
Guillaume Durocher [Tweet him] is a European historian and political writer.
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Philippot has been doing Saturday demonstrations since around August 2020 (twenty twenty). And they’re still going on.
I agree with Danse, Phillipot is one of the only politicians who is in the streets with the French since more than 6 months to fight the dictatorship disguised as a ‘health emergency’…
Where was zemmour? Nowhere near the people, he even agrees with forced injections and yellow badges (vax passports).
Like macron, a real rothschild puppet…
So Marine Le Pen made many mistakes starting by removing FREXIT from her program, but to choose between another rothschild puppet and her, there is no doubt…
Phillipot would be a good candidate but he won’t be there I think he vouched for Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, another honest guy who stood with the people against the dictatorship.
“And, plainly, the party has simply underperformed in recent years. During the disappointing 2017 presidential elections, Marine did poorly both in the televised debate with Macron and at the ballot box (33.9% of the final vote). Party spokesperson Florian Philippot—a civic nationalist who was once Marine’s closest protégé—ignominiously left the movement shortly thereafter. He has since converted himself into an anti-COVID-measure activist and all-purpose contrarian.”
Complete fake. The author is a liar. No time to correct the whole article for now.
F. Philippot had to leave because the FREXIT was only included in Le Pen’s presidency programme BY HIM, and many people inside the Front National were struggling to eject him and suppress the Frexit from the programme. When Le Pen said she no longer wants Frexit, FP left.
Besides, he was never spokesperson but VICE PRESIDENT!
Those who had stuggled to eject him have now left to move to Zemmour/Rothchild, logically.
Marine Le Pen is left alone. She has lost FP and now those traitors altogether.